All Orders & deliveries articles – Page 211
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Sound business
It sounds like Enstrom Helicopters has just concluded a deal worth making a noise about. The US manufacturer will deliver an Enstrom 480 helicopter to Ray Dolby, the inventor who pioneered the world-renowned Dolby sound systems next month. The founder of Dolby Laboratories introduced noise reduction techniques that ...
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Corporate and General Aviation
Winner of the Corporate and General Aviation category was UK-based kit aircraft specialist Europa Aircraft. The company has sold 550 kits to 29 countries, including 100 kits to customers in the USA. Judges said Europa had secured major sales success in the face of strong international competition and had ...
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Boeing identifies a need for intermediate twin-aisle aircraft
Tony Stephenson Over the next 20 years more than $1.38 trillion will be invested in new commercial aircraft, according to Boeing's Current Market Outlook report, launched at Le Bourget yesterday. Of that, more than $570 billion will be spent on intermediate twin-aisle aircraft such as the 767 and ...
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Rolls-Royce clocks $88m orders for jets
Geoff Thomas Rolls-Royce announced at Le Bourget yesterday that it has won new business worth up to $88 million for its AE 3007 engines to power Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets. Italian regional operator Alitalia Express has ordered six aircraft with options for an additional 10, with deliveries due ...
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IAE confirms $600m in orders from leasing firms
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) announced yesterday at Le Bourget that it had new, firm orders worth $600 million for its V2500 family of engines. The orders are from three international leasing companies which will use the engines to power aircraft from Airbus Industrie's A320 family. ...
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Flagship chosen
Litton Industries has announced at Le Bourget that its California-based Aero Products division has been awarded a 10-year sole source contract by German airline Lufthansa to provide 260 LTN-101 Flagship global navigation air data inertial reference units. The units are for 88 Lufthansa aircraft, and are in addition to ...
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New orders give Sextant an optimistic outlook
Not only is Sextant Avionique on home territory at the Paris air show, it is also very bullish thanks to recently-confirmed orders for avionic and satcoms equipment. DaimlerChrysler Aviation has chosen a complete avionics package from Sextant for its A319 Corporate Jet fleet, including flight management systems (FMS), dual distance ...
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Regional ramp up
Paul Lewis/SAN ANTONIO/TORONTO/WASHINGTON DC The regional aviation industry is in a state of transition. Airlines have bade farewell to major manufacturers such as Fokker, Jetstream and Saab, together with an increasing number of their turboprop aircraft. They have been replaced by Bombardier, Embraer and Fairchild, offering a range of new, ...
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Marketplace
Air Sicilia is adding two Fokker F28 Mk4000s on lease from Montenegro Airlines. Royal Air Maroc has taken delivery of two Boeing 737-800s, leased for three years from GE Capital Services. The two aircraft are supplementing the Casablanca-based carrier's own Next Generation 737s on its European, African and Middle East ...
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21st century vision
Led by its president, Alan Mulally, Boeing Commercial Airplanes is learning to make more aircraft with fewer people Guy Norris/SEATTLE Alan Mulally (left), Boeing Commercial Airplane's president, gestures to a wall festooned with charts, graphs and yellow stickies, and asks: "Does it look familiar to you?" This is ...
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Marketplace
Airbus Industrie received its first firm contract for the new 107-seat A318 in April, when an undisclosed customer placed orders for 57 A320 family aircraft, including 30 A318s, 14 A319s, three A320s and 10 A321s. COPA Airlines of Panama has taken delivery of the first of 12 Boeing 737-700s it ...
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NASA launches virtual control tower
NASA has Placed into service a full-scale virtual reality air traffic control tower, which will be used to study ways of improving airport capacity and safety. The virtual tower is installed at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffat Field in California. "With runway accidents growing 15% a year and ...
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Western company buys Yak-42s for Moldova lease
A new Irish-based leasing company, Corvette Aviation, has bought two Yakovlev Yak-42Ds from Russian financial group Interros. The two secondhand aircraft are on short-term lease to Moscow-based Bykovo Avia. After refurbishment and overhaul, they will be leased to Air Moldova International, with delivery of the first aircraft slated for June ...
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Fleets - Asia
Taiwan orders - Taiwan's EVA Airways has ordered three Boeing 747-400 freighters for delivery from next year, apparently taking advantage of a good deal on offer (see feature p80). Rival China Airlines is preparing to announce a similar order for 747-400Fs, but it is also expected to order 777s and ...
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Airbus still challenged by need to restructure
Kevin O'Toole TOULOUSE At its annual press briefing, Airbus Industrie appeared surprisingly subdued given that it has just achieved its 30-year goal of parity with Boeing. But then there are still plenty of hurdles ahead, not least, its conversion to a commercial company. When an Airbus salesman admits to ...
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Marketplace
American Airlines has placed orders for three additional Boeing 737-800s for delivery in 2000. The 146-seaters will replace three aircraft operated by Reno Air that will not be integrated into American's fleet when the airlines are merged. Beirut-based Trans-Mediterranean Airways (TMA) is seeking finance to fund the acquisition of ...
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Chinese aim to compensate for traffic slump with aircraft leases
Chinese airlines are responding to overcapacity and a slump in domestic traffic by offering aircraft for lease to other carriers. China Southern Airlines, based in Guangzhou, is to wet-lease two of its Boeing 777-200s to Biman Airlines of Bangladesh for carrying passengers on the hadj, starting in July. Chengdu-based ...
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VisionAire redesign could give advantage to single-engined jet
Dave Higdon/WICHITA VisionAire's single engined Vantage will be heavier, longer and costlier, following an extensive six-month design review. The move compounds the Ames, Iowa-based firm's charge that the Vantage is a new jet for the 21st century, as certification and first deliveries have been pushed back by about 18 ...
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Embraer expands ERJ designs
Embraer has revealed a surprise, 108-seat, stretch of its ERJ-190 regional jet which effectively provides the Brazilian manufacturer with a direct competitor to Bombardier's proposed BRJ-X. The move comes in response to input from Embraer's recently completed airline advisory board survey which helped freeze the smaller ERJ-170 design at ...
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Fairchild Aerospace predicts business boom
Buoyed by its recent Lufthansa 728JET launch order, Fairchild Aerospace says its option and order backlog will exceed $10 billion by the end of 1999. The company predicts "substantial" new business for its 328JET/428JET family, particularly in North America, where scope clauses changes are expected. "We think it's the ...